There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of… — David Lee Copy Share Image
“It isn’t a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted,… — Richard Lessor Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches,… — Hildegard Peplau Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller,… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. — Albert S. Ruddy Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me;… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time. — David Cage Copy Share Image
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be… — Wellington Webb Copy Share Image
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable. — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music.… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
